Earn MOC Credit Through Special Annual Meeting Sessions
Psychopharmacology Master Course to Offer MOC Credit
APA is offering an opportunity to earn Maintenance of Certification (MOC) credit through an innovative and interactive course at this year’s Annual Meeting. Participants in the master course “Essentials of Clinical Psychopharmacology,” directed by Alan F. Schatzberg, M.D., will be eligible to earn both self-assessment credit (Part 2 of MOC) and Performance-in-Practice (PIP) chart review (Part 4 of MOC) credit.
The course will be held Tuesday, April 28, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Marriott Downtown. It will cover the latest information on the pharmacologic treatment of major psychiatric disorders and include case discussions.
For the self-assessment activity, participants will take a pretest using audience feedback technology. A projector will display each multiple-choice question on a large screen. After participants have entered their answer, the course director will reveal the correct answer, as well as the distribution of audience responses.
Participants will be eligible to earn up to two hours of self-assessment credit (Part 2 of MOC) by participating in the live multiple-choice question review during the course and by completing a post-course follow-up in the APA Learning Center.
For the clinical PIP module activity (completion of three stages fulfills a Part 4 MOC requirement), participants will complete Stage A by reviewing five charts prior to the course using a tool available to course registrants in the APA Learning Center. (Course registrants will be provided with an access code.) They should choose one of the following medication classes for the chart review: SSRIs, benzodiazepines, atypical antipsychotics, or anticonvulsants/lithium and assess on five charts specific quality measures for one of the medication classes.
After the meeting, participants who wish to obtain MOC PIP credit must log in again to the APA Learning Center and complete Stage B of the PIP module (the improvement plan). To finish the clinical PIP module, participants must also complete Stage C by reviewing five more charts (of the same patient or different patients) after the initial completion of Stages A and B, note improvements, as well as complete an online evaluation. All stages must be completed by July 29. Course registrants will receive a Learning Center access code to claim credit for these special course elements.
Psychiatrists can earn CME credit toward meeting Maintenance of Certification (MOC) requirements by participating in several special educational sessions at this year’s Annual Meeting in Philadelphia.
Participants in the master course titled “Essentials of Clinical Psychopharmacology,” directed by renowned psychopharmacologist and past APA President Alan F. Schatzberg, M.D., will be eligible to earn credit toward the Self-Assessment CME (Part 2 of MOC) as well as Performance in Practice (Part 4 of MOC). The course is scheduled for Tuesday, April 28, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. (see box). The course includes a self-assessment (2 credits) with a series of questions for participants to answer using audience feedback technology with review of references and rationales post-course in the online APA Learning Center.
Additionally, members who attend the popular interactive “Focus Live” educational sessions will be able to test their knowledge of topics in psychiatry and earn self-assessment credit for MOC Part 2. Participants in each session will be able to earn 2 credits toward MOC Part 2. Participants will use their mobile devices to answer board-type multiple-choice questions in sessions moderated by Mark Rapaport, M.D., the editor of FOCUS: The Journal of Lifelong Learning in Psychiatry. Rapaport and A. John Rush, M.D., will lead a “Focus Live” session on “Biomarkers in Psychiatry” on Monday, April 27, from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. From 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. that same day, Joseph Goldberg, M.D., will lead the session “Evidence-Based Principles for Bipolar Disorder Treatment.” Both sessions will be held in 201A-C in the Pennsylvania Convention Center.
APA has developed a pre-meeting educational activity for Annual Meeting registrants—the 2020 APA Annual Meeting Self-Assessment in Psychiatry—to help attendees assess their strengths and weaknesses and plan their meeting schedule accordingly. ■
